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(6,801 posts)And I guess they also shouldn't describe a person as "male" since there are many cultural assumptions that go along with that (you can't pretend men and women have always been treated exactly the same right?) . Also there are some men who would identify as women and vice-versa and it's not always possible to tell them apart by just looking at them.
Also being tall carries societal weight as well (we treat tall people differently) so height as a descriptor is out.
So when someone assaults you tell the police it was "a person of indiscriminate race (since it's all a social construct anyway), of some height (I AM NOT A HEIGHTIST!) and a gender of sher own choosing (really it's a spectrum so I don't even see male or female anymore)".
That will definitely be useful.
/and as an aside culturally north Africa is quite different from the south. We separate continents why? Because they're separated by geological features that don't make them entirely inaccessible to other continents necessarily but do limit cultural and physical interactions. The same can be said of north and south Africa. And given the ease of access offered by the Mediterranean including north Africa with southern Europe would make more sense (Greeks had far more interactions with North Africa than they did with Northern Europe; North Africans had far more interactions with Southern Europeans than they did with Southern Africa).